Example sentences of "a [adv] inches " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 2 | Quite enough for a man only five feet , five and a half inches tall . |
| 3 | The suedehead had hair at least one and a half inches long . |
| 4 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |
| 5 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 6 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 7 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 8 | Eight and a half inches tall and bad tempered with it . |
| 9 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |
| 10 | His dick was perfectly formed , but measured no more than three and a half inches . |
| 11 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 12 | It consisted of an oak beam ten feet long , behind this was the foot , five inches by three and a half inches and three feet long and on top of this the handles . |
| 13 | At forty-one , six feet two and a half inches tall , with the face of a handsome pirate and the body of an athlete in tip-top condition , Jared was worth two of anyone 's looks , and his serenely beautiful blonde wife Mary was no less remarkable . |
| 14 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 15 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 16 | Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth . |
| 17 | The task for balloonist and skydiver Ian Ashpole from Ross On Wye was this , to walk between two hot air balloons along a fifteen foot stainless steel rope , just one and a half inches wide at ten thousand five hundred feet . |